As Cory Doctorow says, "the 'art' of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: 'renege'." And so the utterly predictable has happened again. So we in Canada find ourselves at odds with a trading partner that, as Doctorow has noted, has always had the advantage. "The systems that Trump has dismantled as unfair to the US were, in fact, sources of tremendous advantage to America." And as he has previously, Doctorow recommends upending that advantage by undoing the agreements and legislation that have enabled that advantage. "Canada made itself easy pickings for America's tech giants, who wiped out Canada's tech sector while making Canada geopolitically and economically dependent on – and vulnerable to – the US and its tech companies." I'm not sure I want to see Canada respond to the U.S. by burning down its tech industry, as a successful enactment of the Doctorow proposal could do. But given that Americans keep on electing governments and funding corporations that exploit and renege - for Trump is by no means alone in this regard - I'm not sure I don't.
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